Can Field Service and Project Operations both be Dynamics 365 CE? Field Service vs Project Operations Both of these are great in their own right, but there are many inconsistencies between them. It is not good for consultants or Microsoft that these inconsistencies exist. The users get frustrated, question their observations, ask the consultants, question […]
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Recently, I have written complex Power App Canvas App, lots of code. Really stretching this low code environment. The code is more complex because, I do not want to have to change the same code in more than one place. Yes, that is code reuse. But this introduces complexities such as chaining SELECT(<BUTTON>) commands. All […]
Read MoreFIELD SERVICE – WORK ORDER – GEM
When Microsoft gets it Right Setting up field Service Microsoft has really been paying attention to the grumblings of the community. In the last few wave releases we have seen many features implemented wrt making the setup of field service easier. This one flew under the radar for me. Creating an Incident Type from a […]
Read MorePOWER PLATFORM – ERROR HANDLING
If you have to fail, fail graciously ERROR HANDLING – LOW CODE – WHY? This is very important, if your app wants to play with men. My analogy is there are boys and there are men, boys are the most common low app found, you know the typical three screen scenario. The ideas may be […]
Read MorePOWERAPPS – GALLERY COLLECTION
Newbie Tip – may just save you time GALLERY DATASOURCE – COLLECTION Using a collection as a datasource to gallery has many advantages, as detailed by multiple blogs. It is suffice for me to say – the flexibility of a collection is a game changer. Once you have a collection, updating the collection (for example […]
Read MorePOWER APPS ONSELECT FRIEND OR FOE
What – this is core functionality – why are you questioning this? CLICK OR TAB TO CONTROL Clicking a textbox will start the OnSelect action, but tabbing to same control (forward tabbing or back tabbing) does not start the OnSelect action . So how do you instruct a user to only click. You can’t so […]
Read MorePOWER APPs GREAT TOOL
Warning – unfortunately only applicable for more advanced Pasopa is a tool that can be used to unzip the msapp file. This is brilliant as Power Apps has a method to keep track of changes. A really important for any company that wishes to make use of Power Apps. Initially Power Apps did not have […]
Read MoreField Service – Pricing Functionality
It is Not Project Operations Although a lot of the functionality is similar between Field Service and Project Operations. Pricing functionality is not.This has confused many of colleagues, in particular if they come from Project Operations (PSA) to Field Service. Instead it is similar to Sales functionality. Sales Price in Field Service I want to […]
Read MorePOWER APPS – FISSION DEV – Part 4
Level: Yellow (on scale of white, yellow, orange, …, black) Very Basic Themes (Still getting there) I really want to discuss ‘very basic themes’, but there are a couple of pre-requisites. Last time the concept of variables and collections wrt scope (global or local) and naming conventions was discussed. This time is naming conventions for […]
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Level: Orange (on scale of white, yellow, orange, …, black) Very Basic Themes Last time we discussed “Nucleus: First Field on Screen“, this time we extend the concept by introducing themes.Microsoft have introduced a great theming method. However, I feel this may be a little cumbersome for the newbie.This method suggested below is vey basic […]
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